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Poll: 2018 TIFF Gala Movie You Most Want to See?

What do films like 'La La Land', 'Moonlight', 'Arrival', 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri', 'Ladybird', and 'The Shape of Water' have in common besides being Best Picture Oscar nominees? They were all launched at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), one of the most important events of the awards season, which is generally considered to start with the kick-off of this festival. This year, TIFF opens on the 6th of September and with it, the anticipation of fresh, exciting, new films. Which of the TIFF "Gala" films, from 2018, do you most hope to be able to see in the coming months?

The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)

The Land of Steady Habits (2018)

This highly anticipated comedy-drama stars Ben Mendelsohn as a financier who quits his job and divorces his wife (Edie Falco) to escape his wealthy, stifling community. When he befriends a drug-addicted teen, his life leads him to profound questions.

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Life Itself (2018)

The third film from Dan Fogelman, a writer for 'This Is Us,' boasts an all-star cast (Annette Bening, Oscar Isaac, and Olivia Wilde, among others) as it tells a couple's story that reverberates throughout continents and lives.

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Outlaw King (2018)

The Public (2018)

When an Arctic blasts lands in downtown Cincinnati, the often homeless and marginalized patrons of a public library stage a sit, with the support of some of the regular staff but against the library administration. The stellar cast (Alec Baldwin, Jeffrey Wright, Taylor Schilling, and many more) propels this dramatic examination of some of modern society's most important issues.

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Red Joan (2018)

Judi Dench plays Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.

A Star Is Born (2018)

Shadow (2018)

Set during China's Three Kingdom's era, this is the story of a king and his people, who will be expelled from their homeland and will aspire to claim it.

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What They Had (2018)

This family drama features Hillary Swank and Michael Shannon as the adult children whose mother's life-threatening illness is difficult for their father to accept.

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Widows (2018)

This crime thriller about a group of women who are left with the debt of their dead husbands' criminal activities face the future on their own terms. The great cast includes Viola Davis, Colin Farrell, and Michelle Rodriguez.